Biodiesel Conversion Kit

The biodiesel conversion kits you hear about are for use with straight vegetable oil (SVO) or waste vegetable oil (WVO) fuels. These do require some different equipment and modifications to your vehicle. Converting a standard diesel engine to biodiesel is mostly a question of providing a second fuel tank and fuel line to deliver the organic fuel to the engine. If a stable form of vegetable oil with a lower point of solidification can be developed, the need to heat the biodiesel tank may be eliminated in the future. It is important to understand that the conversion process only works on diesel engines, not the gas-powered internal combustion engines found on most cars on the road today.

So if you are interested in having a biodiesel engine then you can buy packaged biodiesel engine conversion kits which will help you achieve this. Such kits come with full instructions and all the necessary equipment you will need in order to modify any car with a diesel engine so that it can run on straight waste vegetable oil (SVO). There are even kits available for more heavy duty diesel engines such as those in heavy duty trucks.

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A privately owned car can be made to run on vegetable oil by either installing a biodiesel conversion kit or by putting converted fuel into a standard diesel tank. The conversion kit, available at greasecar.org, costs about $800, and creates a two-tank diesel/biodiesel system. The engine starts and stops with regular diesel. The driver has a switch that would change the car's fuel source over to the biodiesel tank, which is pure waste vegetable oil. Restaurants, which usually pay to dispose of the grease, are usually amenable to giving it away for free.